Zpiler Windows x86_64 (emits MASM/GNU AS/ LLVM IR)

Windows Release

Release v0.1 – Basic Compiler

Highlights:

• Emit x86-64 (MASM (windows), GAS (linux), LLVM IR (linux)) Windows code from AST
• Assemble with Microsoft’s ML64
• Link with GCC (MinGW-w64)
• Includes “Hello, World!” sample

Language Support

• Support a variety of data types (builtins)
• Supports various unary and binary operations
• Supports various conditional operations
• Supports user-defined functions
• Supports linking to extern functions
• Supports variadic extern functions
• Functions implement canaries to detect stack corruption

Prerequisites

• Windows 10+ with:
  • Visual Studio Build Tools (for ml64.exe)
  • MinGW-w64 GCC on PATH
• A working C++17 toolchain

Usage

1. Code

      extern fn printf(fmt: string, ...) -> int32_t;
   
      fn main() {
          printf("Hello Z!!\n");
      }
   

2. Compile
   bash zpiler --format x86_64-mswin -o output.asm <path_to_source>

3. Assemble
   bash ml64 /nologo /c <path_to_asm>

4. Link
   bash gcc <path_to_object> -o temp.exe

5. Run
   bash <path_to_exe>

Warning

By no means is this language perfect, it's just a toy project, use it at your own risk